Retail Furniture News: Vanguard Furniture’s Solar Panel Installation Saves the Equivalent of 469 Metric Tons of Carbon Dioxide Emissions, This impact is equivalent to saving over 1,000 barrels of oil, removing air pollution produced by over 1.2 million miles of driving, or the pollutants removed by planting 586 acres of trees annually, or powering 57 homes for a full year.
Contec’s CEO, Jack McBride shared, “We are thrilled to complete this installation. We take our responsibility to our community and our planet seriously, and this is a key part of our broader, ongoing corporate social responsibility efforts.”
Contec’s President, Avi Lawrence echoed the sentiment noting, “We’ve already begun tracking and sharing the results of these efforts with our associates and customers; framing the data in a way that is easy to understand by using analogies to personal energy use.”
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Pisgah Energy was the lead developer and worked in collaboration with Charleston SC based-Southern Current to provide construction services for the project.
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SPARTANBURG, S.C., Feb. 3, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Contec recently partnered with Pisgah Energy and Southern Current to design, develop and install a roof and ground mounted solar project at their headquarters in Spartanburg, South Carolina. The two systems, totaling 625.5 kWdc, serve as on-site electrical generation for Contec, expanding their efforts to manufacture their goods with renewable energy.
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Contec headquarters now boasts a total of 1668 solar panels that will supply power to the facility. This net-metered system is estimated to produce 944,600 kWh and offset Contec s electricity usage by 53%.
Contec s CEO, Jack McBride shared, We are thrilled to complete this installation. We take our responsibility to our community and our planet seriously, and this is a key part of our broader, ongoing corporate social responsibility efforts.